Setup Up Environment

• From the main juypterhub screen (right after logging in and before opening any notebooks)

• Click the “New” pulldown button and choose “Terminal”
• Create a new environment (see the cheatsheet).  Lets call the environment name myenv (you can give it any name you want)

                        >   conda create –name myenv python=3.6                (note: its 2 dashes)

• Try activating the environment by typing

                        >   conda activate myenv

• With this environment activated, you can install any package you want using “conda install PACKAGENAME“, or if a particular version is needed “conda install PACKAGENAME=versionnumber”
• Using pip “pip install PACKAGENAME –user”

Add Environment to Jupyterhub

• So now your environment is created.  To make it appear in Jupyterhub, type in the terminal window the following

    >  python -m ipykernel install –user –name myenv –display-name “Python (myenv)” (note: its 2 dashes before “user”, “name” and “display-name”)

• Then, when you next start a session in jupyterhub, you can open the session in your new environment and use/install/remove/manage any package you want without administrator access!